Recent content by Fruitbat

The best pit crews I had were the ones that shut up and didnt say anything as I rolled into the pits so that I could tell them what I wanted or needed before I forgot... it is soo annoying to start a new lap at 2am and remember that you were going to ask for fresh gloves or some salty food or...

Cable Beach fat bike.... being unemployed has its benefits....

I use the cheap version of this cutter that doesn't have a rachet. Ran the oilstone over the edge for razor sharpness and never damaged a hose since. I was originally planning to do a bit of a hack and re-engineer it by cutting and shutting in yellow clampy thing to support half the...

So you reckon I should just bite the bullet and re-spoke/re-nipple this wheel from scratch and then I will never have to worry about it again?

Will do... once the rim tape comes off I'll assess the spoke length, but regardless of what I find the alloys will be going in the bin.

I'll check over the weekend but spokes too short sounds like a reasonable explanation as the failures are so premature and consistent. Looks like there may be another wheel build in my future!

What causes the head of the nipple to shear off? I have build maybe 10 wheels from scratch with no issues but my last one is frustrating me no end, mainly cos I built it for a mate who is giving me no end of grief about it because the heads of the spoke nipples are breaking off where the head...

Not true... the law changed last year some time and you can now get auxiliary plates.

Damn... until I saw these pics I was happy with a "if its working don't mess with it" approach. Looks like I will be dropping into Supercheap on the way home for some DOT fluid...

Currently bingeing on Steel Panther, sooo inappropriate yet hilariously funny and catchy tunes at the same time. My co-workers are looking at me weirdly as I giggle my way through the morning.

Decided to finally service the misbehaving dropper post. Turns out the cartridge is buggered so after pricing parts and seeing how much slop there was I thought bugger it and bought a whole new post, going from external to internally routed. A little bit of swearing getting the cable through the...

Changed gears on the singlespeed from the 32-14 commuting gear to 32-15... which will hopefully get me in the sweet spot for slowish commuting but low enough to be able to climb one of our local rail trails

OK, I am in....

Thanks everyone... Since I laced both wheels up as 2x last night, that's how they will stay until I do my next spoke order and re-do as 3x. I need to practice anyway, one hub brand was no where near the spoke hole so I was considering re-lacing it anyway for practice. Amazing how I don't notice...

Thanks Guys, much appreciated. Crisis averted, no fuckwit thread for me this time!